After the crowd cheered, Gaga continued to recount her awkward conversation with Wintour. "So she sent me a text message, and it said, 'We're so excited to tell you you won the CFDA fashion icon award.' And I actually thought it was Anna Treblin, who was one of my very close friends and [my stylist] Nicola's assistant, who I go out and have drinks with all the time. I have a couple Annas in my phone, so my reply was, 'Yes, bitch, we did it.'"

"Quite quickly I got a reply that said, 'How lovely, and we will all be waiting to see what you will wear," Gaga recalled. "And then I thought, 'Well won't you be helping me choose what I will wear?' And then I said, 'Oh! it's Anna Wintour.'"